Summary
Victor Santiago is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, cloud-native distributed systems for companies like Amazon, Meta, HubSpot and Apple. He specializes in backend architecture, performance optimization and deploying AI-powered systems at scale, having led teams that handle thousands of requests per second and shipped latency-sensitive features for millions of users. Victor has full-stack experience across Java, Scala, Python and serverless AWS ecosystems, and has productionised inference stacks using Triton, Bedrock and SageMaker to cut costs substantially. Early academic recognition via a national scholarship to the University of Sydney and a widely publicized security research finding in Brazil hint at a blend of technical depth and real-world impact beyond product delivery. Based in the UK and open to roles requiring a work visa, he also publishes a chatbot to answer background questions at victorsantiago.me/chat. Outside work he jokes about “fighting crime” on GitHub while focusing on practical, cost-conscious AI deployments.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
Mackenzie Presbyterian University